Imagine: You're a young man living 10,000 years ago. in a tribe with 50 others. In your tribe, there is a dominant, charismatic, powerful male leader. You admire and respect him, but also fear him. Every time you see him, you avert your gaze to avoid direct eye contact. Lately, you've noticed that you're thinking more and more about becoming a leader yourself. You can imagine being admired by others and being the one to lead the hunts for food. You've also noticed that your temper and emotions are becoming harder to control. Something seems to be happening inside of you that is making you more and more irritable. You've also noticed hair growing on your face and muscles growing on your body.

Imagine:You're a young man living 10,000 years ago. in a tribe with 50 others.In your tribe, there is a dominant, charismatic, powerful male leader. You admire and respect him, but also fear him. Every time you see him, you avert your gaze to avoid direct eye contact.

Lately, you've noticed that you're thinking more and more about becoming a leader yourself. You can imagine being admired by others and being the one to lead the hunts for food.

You've also noticed that your temper and emotions are becoming harder to control. Something seems to be happening inside of you that is making you more and more irritable. You've also noticed hair growing on your face and muscles growing on your body.

One day, while you're walking alone in the trees, you see a familiar waterfall, with a pond below. In the pond is a beautiful young woman you've admired for many years. bathing.

For some reason, on this day, she appears different to you. Today, you have an unfamiliar feeling inside. At this moment, you feel an overwhelming desire to be with her. in a way you don't understand.

As you approach her, she turns and sees you.

For a split-second, all of time seems to freeze. as you look into each other's eyes. It's in that moment you realize that she's feeling something, too.

You walk toward her, and she walks toward you. You don't know what's about to happen, but you can feel something moving you forward. a drive that seems to be coming from deep within you.

As you get closer to this beautiful being standing in front of you, she smiles. and looks at your face.

You reach a hand out to touch her arm. This time, the touch feels very unusual. You breathe deep. Your pulse begins to quicken. You can feel the hairs on your body stand up in waves.

You are so focused on the action that's unfolding, that you don't notice a rustling in the trees behind you.

All at once, you sense the presence of others. You spin your head around to see who is behind you.

And there stands the leader of your group, along with many other adults, including your mom and dad.

An instinctive sense of fear strikes deep into your stomach. your eyes widen. and your throat becomes constricted and dry. You feel as if you're in great danger, even though you've done nothing wrong.

The leader of your group is looking directly at you, with a look that makes you fear for your life.

The leader of your group, along with several other men, take you away from this beautiful girl, and drag you into the forest.

They blindfold you and take you to a hidden cave. a cave that you've only heard stories about.

Over the next couple days, four other young men are brought to the prison-like cave, too. It seems as if all of you have been sentenced to death.

The men from your group, including the leader, then come into the cave. They are painted with strange symbols on their faces and bodies.

They look sternly at you and the other young men. and the leader says "It is time for the boys to die."

One-by-one, they take each of you and force you to eat some putrid vegetables. Next, they rub a sticky mixture of fruit pulp on all of you. from head to toe.

Then the painted men leave.

You are alone with the others, all preparing to die, in mortal fear.

You here the frightening sound of large logs being stacked across the front of the cave, sealing you and the other boys inside.

At this moment, you realize that you are going to die. without ever knowing what would've happened with that beautiful girl you were with yesterday.

You can feel the poison that the men gave you taking effect. Your stomach is beginning to hurt. As you become more and more afraid, your mind begins to create frightful nightmares you've never imagined before.

You don't realize it, but in the mixture the men forced you to eat. was a drug that is now taking over your mind. It's making the nightmares far worse that anything you could ever experience during normal sleep.

As you and your friends begin to cry and scream with fear, you begin to notice strange sensations all over your body.

You reach down feel something moving on your skin. You realize that large ants have been attracted by the fruit on your body and are coming in large numbers to feast.

You try to brush them away, but there are far too many of them. It seems like the more you swat at them, the more they tear away at your flesh.

And this is just the beginning.

After what seems like weeks of this insane torture, you begin to realize that you are probably dead. You and the other boys have cried and screamed for so long. and the ants have eaten so much of you. that there is no chance that you're alive.